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Formatting data for output in a table can be a bit of a pain in R. The package formattable by Kun Ren and Kenton Russell provides some intuitive functions to create good looking tables for the R console or HTML quickly. The package home page demonstrates the functions with illustrative examples nicely.

There are a few points I really like:

The CRAN Task View: Reproducible Research lists other packages as well that help to create tables for web output, such as compareGroups, DT, htmlTable, HTMLUtils, hwriter, Kmisc, knitr, lazyWeave, SortableHTMLTables, texreg and ztable. Yet, if I am not mistaken, most of these packages focus more on generating complex tables with multi-columns rows, footnotes, math notation, etc, than the points I mentioned above.

Finally, here is a little formattable example from my side:



Session Info

R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.11.2 (El Capitan)

locale:
[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
[7] base     

other attached packages:
[1] formattable_0.1.5

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] shiny_0.12.2.9006 htmlwidgets_0.5.1 R6_2.1.1         
 [4] rsconnect_0.3.79  markdown_0.7.7    htmltools_0.3    
 [7] tools_3.2.3       yaml_2.1.13       Rcpp_0.12.2      
[10] highr_0.5.1       knitr_1.12        jsonlite_0.9.19  
[13] digest_0.6.9      xtable_1.8-0      httpuv_1.3.3     
[16] mime_0.4  
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